The teenage student Ben is still a bit one-sized but is well portrayed too, avoiding the stereotypes. The fragile balance of Katharina (Mitterhammer)'s family is very well shown with their lack of comunication that could happen to anyone, as her husband is a truly busy man more worried about his own proyects than his wife and The less-compassive and selfish daughter Jule, who does her part a strong element in the story. By now, seems like the same old and tired plot about the forbidden love between the mature teacher and her pupil, but this story has an mature and realistic treatment of the story and characters. Marion Mitterhammer plays a quite sympathetic and lovable character as an school teacher, happily married with a workhaholic architect, and mother of a conflictive teenage girl and a small, innocent boy but things change when she mets the usual rebel student, a serious problem teen who really has a superior sensibility. This is a very well done, far over-the-average drama made for TV, even better than many other american movies about the theme.
